27 NOVEMBER 2017

FOOTBALL
LAB

BY: AKRADEJ, CHIN,

CHALISA, PHASKORN,
PATCHARIPA
 Introduction
Football is a group activity that includes kicking a ball with the foot to
score a goal. "Football" refers to whichever type of football is the most
well known in the local setting in which the word shows up. It started in
1863 in England, when rugby football and affiliation football diverge on
their distinctive courses and the Football Association in England was
shaped. A search down the centuries reveals at least half a dozen
different games, varying to different degrees, and to which the
historical development of football has been traced back. Whether this
can be justified in some instances is disputable. Nevertheless, the fact
remains that people have enjoyed kicking a ball about for thousands of
years and there is absolutely no reason to consider it an aberration of
the more 'natural' form of playing a ball with the hands. On the
contrary, aside from the need to utilize the legs and feet in intense
tussles for the ball, regularly with no laws for protection, it was
recognized right at the beginning that the art of controlling the ball
with the feet was difficult and, all things considered, required no little
measure of ability. The very earliest form of the game for which there is
scientific evidence was an exercise from a military manual dating back
to the second and third centuries BC in China.
 Objective
Experimental

To prove Newtons second law

To be able to relate football with Newtons second law
To be able to calculate force, mass and acceleration using
the formula F = MA
To be able to define error from the experiment(human error,
uncertainty, and equipment error)

Learning

To practice calculating force, mass and

acceleration using the formula F = MA
To gain experience in working with the
formula F = MA
Materials
 Procedure
Measure the mass of football and
volleyball
Kick the balls with the same force
Measure the distance from the
kicking point to the stop point
Using stopwatches to reckon the
time
Record the result and repeat all of
the steps one more time
Result
 Analysis
The results of our experiment that we kicked two balls with almost
the same amount of force, the basketball which is a heavier ball and
it weights 622 grams has an acceleration of 2.8 m/s^2 while the
football which weights 125.8 grams has an acceleration of 16.2 m/s^2.
Our results matches the theory of Newtons second law which is
stated that if mass increases, acceleration decreases. In this
experiment, the error is that our group members kicking forces are
not exactly the same between two balls. The force that he used to
kick the basketball which is the heavier ball is 1.74 N while the force
that he used to kick the football which is the lighter ball is 1.66 N. The
differential in kicking forces which is the error is 4.70588% difference.
This is an error because the two forces should be identical to
completely prove the theory. Another error that might occured is
that our timing is not accurate because we used stopwatch to
measure the time. With these reasons, our results are not hundred
percent accurate.
 Conclusion
The purpose of this lab is to relate the
Newtons second law with the football. We
have applied the formula of this law, F = ma,
to find the force, the acceleration, and the
mass of each ball in our experiment. And
from our outcomes, we got all of the correct
results by using the formula. Additionally,
the theory is proved that the with the similar
amount of force, if the mass increases then
the acceleration decreases.

Recommendation
Apart from our mistakes that we have made,
we can improve our result by understand
more about football such as how to kick it.
Also, we should let a robot kick the balls
instead because we can control how much
force the robot can kick. With this, the
amount of force applied can be controlled.
Also, we can use some kind of sensor to
record the exact time to get more accurate
data.
Setup
 Worklog
Patcharipa Akradej

Setup Reference
Recommendation Conclusion
Chalisa
Phaskorn
Worklog
Introduction Procedure
Analysis
Chin

Materials
Objective
Result